Communion, to be in a State of Damnation. If I be deceiv'd in any thing of all this, I shall be very glad to know it; and I have only this to say for my self, that they were Roman Catholicks, who should know their own Religion best, that have deceived me; and if I may be deceiv'd by hearken∣ing to them, whom that Church sends abroad to make us Con∣verts, I shall be the less encouraged hereafter, to embrace her Communion upon their Perswasions. Whether all, who are already of her Communion, either own or know all this, it con∣cerns not me to enquire; but I think it a Debt of Charity, that I owe them, to think, (till they tell me the contrary) that they do not; and that, if they did, they would not long continue where they are. However, till they, who taught me these things, shall either confess their own Error, or shew me my Mistake, I must needs think them all true; and there∣fore also account it much safer for me to continue a Protestant, than to turn Papist, whatever it may seem, or be to others.First, I think nothing can be plainer, than that it is more safe to act like understanding, and discreet, considering Men, than otherwise; or, that the Religion, which alloweth Men so to do, is safer than that which doth not allow it. Now the Protestant Religion alloweth Men to make use of their Reason and Iudgment, to discern between Truth and Falshood, Good and Evil; which the Roman Religion (as it seems to me) will not allow; and therefore it must needs be the safer Re∣ligion.Christ certainly came not into the World to save Sinners by destroying, but rather by restoring and perfecting Human Nature. His business was not to deprive us of the use of the most noble Faculty which God had given us; but to rectify that, and all the rest, after they had been depraved by Sin. His Gospel was not preached to close up the Eye of the Soul, the Understanding, and so to lead Men blindfold to Heaven; but to open Mens Eyes, and to furn them from Darkness to Light, Act. 26. 18. The Apostles preach'd, to teach us how 0